Amen. One of the best parts about being affiliated with this site is that guys like Erik can sit down and hammer out something like that. The people who write here all have different styles. I'm more spray paint, wall and graffitti while a guy like Cass is an artist at an easel.

I'd like to have that play in my book.

That article is as good, if not better, than anything I've read on the entire Lebacle.

Years later it would be the choice that set him up for life, buying him a legacy, making him Cal Ripken Jr., a trademark for anything good in baseball.

But what if, like LeBron, he had left? What if he fled Baltimore the way James forsook Cleveland?

The thing is, he never would. He was always destined to be Maryland’s Cal Ripken. And doing so made him bigger than hoisting three Yankees World Series trophies possibly could. When he broke the sport’s consecutive games played record, he did so at home.

It was a moment even George Steinbrenner could never have bought.

I know more about pizza than you. Much more in fact. - Cerebral_DownTime

"At least the Scots didn't have to tune in with the rest of the country and watch their women get plowed by Longshanks and his men."~Commodore Perry on the difference between baseball's flawed economics : Indians :: prima nocta : Scots

It really was that hard to write. I had to pick it and put it down at least four separate times, then re-read it three times. I'm used to banging out columns in 1-2 hours with no breaks. This was a lot different.

Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.

papacass wrote:Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.

It really was that hard to write. I had to pick it and put it down at least four separate times, then re-read it three times. I'm used to banging out columns in 1-2 hours with no breaks. This was a lot different.

Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.

It really was that hard to write. I had to pick it and put it down at least four separate times, then re-read it three times. I'm used to banging out columns in 1-2 hours with no breaks. This was a lot different.

Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.

It really was that hard to write. I had to pick it and put it down at least four separate times, then re-read it three times. I'm used to banging out columns in 1-2 hours with no breaks. This was a lot different.

Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.

It really was that hard to write. I had to pick it and put it down at least four separate times, then re-read it three times. I'm used to banging out columns in 1-2 hours with no breaks. This was a lot different.

Rich, if TCF wanted to make some money off of LeCarpetbagger, I think we should, as a site, comb back through the archives and find maybe the 100-150 best LBJ-themed columns from the past four-plus years, and make a book out of it. We could all chip in and cover the cost of self-publishing it. You could sell it in the online store, and maybe we could cut a deal with some local bookstores to carry it.

Maybe we'd have to wait until the anger dies down some more, but when everyone around the area calms down and wants to look back on the evolution of the LBJ era in Cleveland, it would make for a good keepsake.